HIGHLAND RECORDER VOL. XXIV. MONTEREY, HIGHLAND COUNTY, VA., FEBRUARY 21, 1902. NO. 7. THE BOERS LEAD BRITISHJNTO TRAP Two Officers and Ten Men Killed, Many Injured. THEV PURSUED BOER SOLDIER. British Force of .cuoted Infantry Surround a Farmhouse Where They Suspected Boers Were in Hiding?A Boer Runs From the Mouse and Climbs a Kopje, the British All Trooping After Him. Pretoria, (By Cable).?One hundred and fifty mounted infantrymen, while pa? trolling the Klip river, south of Johan? nesburg, February i. ,, surrounded a farmhouse where they suspected Boers were in hiding. A single Boer broke away from the house, and thc British started to pursue him. Tlie Boer climbed a kopje, the British following. Im? mediately a heavy fire was opened upon them from three sides. The British found themselves in a trap and in a position where they were un? able to make any defense. Eight of the British officers made a gallant effort and defended thc ridge with carbines and revolvers until they were ...

Tho Family Accounted For. "Where is Sue?" "Gone fo the hangin'." "An' Mandy?" " 'Tendin' Sis' Jenkins' funeral." ''An' the Ol' man?" "In jail for shootin* thc sheriff in the kg." "'An' what air yojl a-doin' of?" "Waitin' roun' here tell a hurricane Comes an' blows thc house down 'port top o' me!" Paris supplies, free of cost, mlforooa laths to all persona engaged ia handling lead. KIDNEY JBOUBLES. Mrs. Louise M. Gibson Says That This Fatal Disease is Easily Cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com? pound. - " Dear Mils. Pixkiiam : ? I felt very discouraged two years ago, I had suf? fered so long- with kidney troubles and other complications, and had taken so much medicine without relief that I began to think there was no hope for mo. Lifo looked bo good to me, but what is lifo without health ? I wanted to be well. MRS. LOUISE M. GIBSON. "Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege? table Compound cured me and made me well, and that is why I gladly write you this, and gladly thank you ; six bottles was...

RECORDER vol. xxiv. MONTEREY, HIGHLAND COUNTY, VA.. FEBRUARY 28. 1902. NO. 8. PRINCE HENRY ON AMERICAN SOIL Welcomed ii the Name of the People, President. Navy and Army. PRINCE RETURNED ALL THE* VISITS. Tit Oana of tbe Forts and Battleships Booaed ? Noisy Salute ead Rear Admiral Erasa Gave Him the First Official Greet tal?Thea the Various Representatives ot tbe Government. New York, (Special).? Admiral Prince Henry of Prussia arrived in American waters on the North German Lloyd Line steamer Kronprinz Wilhelm and landed in New York at 12.55 P. M. Sunday. Friendly messages were exchanged by Prince Henry and President Roosevelt. . The Prince got a welcome long to be remembered. When his ship reached Sandy Hook at io A. M. thc din began. All the way un New York bay and har? bor there were the noise of cannonading. cheering by immense crowds and the blasts of steam whistles. Rear-Admiral Robley D. Evans of? ficially welcomed the royal visitor in the name of the American people. The Princ...

Highland Recorder. Terras, $1.00 a Year in Advance. Inaned ertrx Friday eY<-?lli?'bv Entered at the Monterey postoffice af second class matter. Monterey, Va., Friday, Feb. 28, 1902 Imperialism lins to answer for some new elements of civilization in the Philippines, among them, intemperance and yellow journal? ism,?intoxicants for mind and body. -??? The steel trust lins announced ita earnings for the past nine months ns $84,000,000, and simul? taneously the Census Bureau gives the population of the United States and its possessions as 84,000,(00 souls. A dollar per person in nine months is a good rate of profit. -? ? ? Those people who advocate a strong navy to build np our Ori? ental trade should get down their dusty tomes on "Political Economy11 and find out how much a warship has added to the trade of any na? tion. The acceptances of new inven? tions follow so closely, one upon another, that we are apt to lose our wonder nt the great strides that are being made. For instance, ...

IGHLAND RECKODEK LOCAL NEWS. l'EBNONAL Brief Items of Interest to Home Folks About Their Friends And Acquaintances. 0 A Stephenson of Meadow Dale ?was in town Monday. You might say that Wednesday was somewhat of a spring day. The coasters and sleighers may now "go away back and sit down'" for a while. Prince Henry has landed on American soil. The ransom of $72,500 the Bal? timore Sundays has been paid and Miss Stone ha? actually been re? leased. Messrs Jacob G., Jonas and Clark Hevener were in town Monday do? ing some trading. Kev. W. W. Carson. Prtn, of fie Highland High School, preached in the Presbyterian church here Sunday, at which service ten per? sons United with the church. A gentleman from the Doe Hill neighborhood, charged it is said with disturbing public worship, was here looking up an attorney to defend him in trial before a justice. Messrs Addison Simmons and Horace Herold brought a 1 >ad of fine Crabbottom corn to this market Saturday. Eighty cents ii about the fig...

MAN HAS AjLION TO FlttHT Dr. Talmage Says V\ hen Contending Against Ao Evil Habit You Stand lo a Circle of Sympathy. Clouds of Witnesses?' Blessed Are They Who Put Their Trust in Him.' Washington, D. C.?This discourse of Dr. Talmage is full of inspiring thoughts tor those who find life a struggle, and snows that we have many celestial sym? pathizers; texts, Hebrews xii, 1, "Seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses;" I Corinthians nv. 32, "I hart fought with beasts at aphelia. Crossing the Alps by the Mont Ccnis pass or through the Mont Cenis tunnel, you are in a few hom .3 set down at Vero? na. Italy, and in a few minutes begin ex ambling one of the grandest ruins oi the world, the Amphitheatre. Thc whole building sweeps around you in a circle. You stand in the arena where the combat was once fought or the race run, and on all sides the seats lise, tier above tier, un? til you count forty elevations or galleries, .ci 1 shall aee fit lo <-;ill then), i...

HIGHLAN RECORDER C VOL. XXIV. MONTEREY, HIGHLAND COUNTY, VA., MARCH 7, 1902. NO. 9. TBE FLOOD LOSSES IN TBE MILLIONS Many Railroads B.ccked and Industries Paralyzed. PEOPLE DR'.VEN FROM HOMES. Filly Thousand Men Cut of Work by the Flooding of (he Mills About Pittsburg? Few Lives Lost, But Hundreds of People Suffering From Exposure? Several Places In Terrible Condition. Many millions in money lost, tens of thousands of people thrown out of em? ployment and hundreds of families homeless make up the appalling record of the Hoods in Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia. Ohio. Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut. North Carolina, Ten? nessee, Georgia and Alabama. A remarkable hut fortunate feature of the widespread destruction is the small loss of life. Few persons were drowned, several were killed in railroad wrecks caused hy washouts, hut considering thc rapid rin- of the wafers in some sec? tions, engulfing and sweeping away num? bers of houses, it is astonishing that there were not more ...

Ml liLAND LtECOJtDEU. Terms, $1.00 a Yearin .' ivanee, lasaed c. .rv Pridn* rcpnl W- 3ET. ls__j _ ' ? " .INTST, Enluml at the Monterey postcfficeas second class matter. Mont .-rey, Va., Friday, MAr. 7, K)03 The Republican parh is in Rn unbap] y predicament. They have a real pre. iden! on their builds who seems determined f<> keep his miine always in "upper case. Ministers al Kankakee, Ills., haye formed a trust to ki ep up the rale for marriages. They have di ona minimum fee of $5 ns they have frequently found tl e fee paid was not iu proportion 1" their ex? penses in connection wil!; the mar? riage. Tho terrible flood which visited this .ection on Saturday night last, causing a general break ap and Iel go of snow, ice and freeze, bas done many things, but one in particular is that it has brought io a sudden close a controversy on roads between the Bath county News und the Highland Recorder. The News contended that Bath county had better roads than Highland. We held to the gro...

Highland Reokodek local news." PERSONAL Brief Items of Interest to Home Folks About .heir Friends And Acquaintances. Mr. .Jus. A. Fleisher was ovei Monday. Mr James McNulty of the Crab? bottom side was here Tuesday. * Mi.-s Maude Trimble, we nie glad to auuounce continues to improye, M. T. ana Joseph Botkiu of Pule Alto wt-r*' here Tuesday. Mr .lames Ii. Judy of Staunton is visiting in Crabbottom. Mrs. Annie Stone of Crab Run was here Tuesday ou business, ac? companied by Mr ICnins ti<.Sii: -on. Mr Sam. Beverage is arranging to open his store. It will be in the building ene door east of the New Star Hotel. Several ol the 1 ors wen? to tbe West Va. woods jual before the snow, and thev wish they were back, Oh! my, Oh. Messrs. Wm, Anderson and \N . A. Campbell of Franklin were ii: this section looking f??r tattle. We are sorry to report the seri? ous illness from fever of Mr. Dave Hiner at tin.' home of his uncle, al Davlfm. His mother, Mis. G. J, Hiner, is with him. ID Monterey pro...

THE MANYJEMPTATIONS. Dr. Talmage Says the Assailants of Virtue and Honesty Arc Numerous. Needs For Divine Proteciioa-God's Crace Briogetli Salvation. r "Washington, D. C.?A familiar illus? tration from the barnyard is employed in this discourse by Ur. Talmage to show thc comfort and protection that heaven af? fords to all trusting oouis. The text is Matthew xxiii, 37, "Even as a hen gather? eth lier chickens under her wings, and ye would not." .'erusalem was in sight as Christ came to the crest of Mount Olivet, a height of ?00 feet. The splendors of the religious capital of thc whole earth irradiated the landscape. There is the temple. Yonder is the king's palace. Spread out before Ilis eyes are the pomp, wealth, the wick tdness and the coming destruction of Je? rusalem, and Ile bursts into tears at the thought of the obduracy of a place that lie would gladly have saved and apostro? phizes, i\tying, "0 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even...

- ( HIGHLAND RECORDER vol. xxiv. MONTEREY, HIGHLAND COUNTY, VA.. MARCH 21, 1902. NO. Il NELL CROPSEV'S DEATH UNSOLVED Thc Testimony of thc Physicians Not Convincing. DOUBT THAT THE GIRL WAS KILLED. Dr. Lumsden Declines to Testify M aa Expert, Declaring He ls Unable to Give Expert Testimony Concerning a Dead Body Tbat Had Been in the Water 37 Days. Elizabeth City. N. C. (Special).?Thc Wilcox trial grows more interesting each day. The State, so far, has not made out a clear case of murder, al? though the majority of the people here believe that she was the victim of foul play. Though Drs. Fearing and Wood both expressed the opinion that the death of Nellie Cropsey was caused hy a blow on the left side of thc head, the defense has succeeded in creating an impression that the evidence against the drowning theory is not sufficient. Some people go so far as to say that Mr. Aydlett will ask the judge to dis? miss the case on thc ground that thc State has failed to prove that the girl was k...

Jj*^-*'-???-? =o**v-.m mpmaaammamamm, hmm__ JHlGH'.AND llECOHDEK Terms, $1.00 a Year in Advance. Issned ovi-rv P rid av ' ? 1 TJg "r;V W. H. 2te?A.TV-: '? r^T, H_DSTOZ. -/-_X7_D 7-, ..-.\ ^3S?3B1?. Fntcicd at Uie Monterey po.1ofi.ee I second cla^s matter. Monterey, Va., Friday, Mar. 81, 19< Brother Payne ot the Bath com ty Enterprise ia . real good fellow He agrees with us iu the matter o jonds that lhere is great room io improvement on them in bot counties. Both pupers should kef on preaching on the subject. Would it be perverting ihe seri) lure, to refer in our discourses ! the foolish man who built bia hon* ..non the sand. Weall know wh? happened to that house when ti, rain came and l>eat noon it. Two farmers in Kansas trade children recently, one man givin n ten year old son and a loud o corn for a thireen year old daugii ter ami the transaction was made matter of record in the count clerk's office. Both families ai well to do and the reason for ti: trade was that om; had ...

WSSammW 11 For 25 years I have never missed taking Ayer's Sarsaparilla every spring. It cleanses my blood, makes me feel strong, and does me good in every way." ? John P. Hodnette, Brooklyn, N.Y. Pure and rich blood carries new life to every part of the body. You are invigorated, refreshed. You feel anxious to be active. You become strong, steady,courageous. That's what Ayer's Sarsaparilla will do for you. $1.00 a bottle. All druggists. Ask your doctor what lie thinks of Ayer's Sarsaparilla. He knows all about this grand old family medicine. Follow his advice and we will be satisfier!. J. C. Ayer Co., Lowell, Mass. Ncwspap- rn in Paris. New York is pretty well supplied with newspapers. I doubt if capitalists could he persuaded that additional ones would he good investments. But so far as mere numbers arc concerned, our pa? pers are only a tithe of what we find in Paris. 'J'here arc about 2,600 organs of the press in the French capital, 163 of which are political journals. In this ro...

RECORDER vol. xxiv. MONTEREY, HIGHLAND COUNTY, VA.. MARCH 28. 1902. NO. 12 DIATH PENALTY FOR JAMES E. WILCOX Oqllty of Murder In the First Degree is rte Jury's Verdict. 'THE FW90NOFS LAWYER WEEPS lils Father, Too, ls Deeply Affected?Tbe Loc*l Opinion Considers the Punishment Jest?Judge George A. Jones Sentenced Him to Be Hanged on Friday, April 28?Ap? peal to Be Taken to State Supreme Court. Elizabeth City, N. C.. (Special).? James E. Wilcox, charged with the mur? der of Ella Maude Cropsey, was con? victed of murder in the first degree hy the jury. Judge George A. Jone* sentenced him to be hanged by the neck on Friday, April 2%. between thc hours of io and 3 o'clock. The jury filed into thc courtroom as j, the town clock tolled out the hour of ; | 10 P. M. G. E. Dcrrickson was made | spokesman. Henry Jennings, clerk, commanded Wilcox to stand, raise his right hand and face thc jury. "Gentlemen." said the clerk, in the usual form, "have you agreed upon your verdict?" "We have," was t...